Murhaballadeja features a striking photo on the cover: Two beefy, big-jawed men with cruel eyes are in prison garb, shackled with heavy chains at the neck, wrists, knees and feet. Turns out they're legendary 19th century murderers from Finland. These are the kinds of characters you'll find in a collection of murder ballads from Kimmo Pohjonen.
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"Founding of the People's Republic of China," 1st edition, 1953. (Note senior party official Gao Gang, who stands at the far right.)
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"Founding of the People's Republic of China," 3rd edition, 1978. (Note Gao Gang has disappeared. He was purged from the party and committed suicide in 1954.)
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Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin. 1951
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"Firmly support U.S. people against U.S. imperialism invading Vietnam." 1966
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"The Tibetan people welcome the People's Liberation Army." (Tibet was essentially autonomous for decades before Chinese communist troops entered in 1950.)
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"John rides the ox and I am on the horse, what a shame if he wins the game." (Great Leap Forward) 1958
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"Keep on alert." 1971
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"Thoroughly smash the reactionary organization of 'proletarian union.' " 1967
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"The Red Detachment of Women (Modern Revolutionary Ballet)." 1970
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"Make contribution for the modernization of science and technology." 1978
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"Develop coal mining in the lower Yangtze Village to change the situation of transporting coal only from north to south." 1972
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"Mutual aid and mutual love to produce more actively." 1954
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An example of a Shanghai Lady poster from the 1930s
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"Pond is full of fish." 1987
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"Be ready always." 1989
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A 1967 poster declares, "Beloved Chairman Mao, we are loyal to you forever."
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A poster at the museum shows a Chinese man on horseback racing past a portly British soldier. The caption reads, "John rides the ox and I am the horse, what a shame if he wins the game."
The Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Center lies buried in an unmarked apartment building off the tree-lined streets of the city's former French Concession. There are no signs. You have to wend your way through apartment blocks, down a staircase and into a basement to discover one of Shanghai's most obscure and remarkable museums.
With the shoegaze band Slowdive, the country-rock group Mojave 3 and his own solo albums, Neil Halstead has carved out a 25-year career just outside the pop mainstream. When he was only 17, Halstead helped start Slowdive, which morphed into Mojave 3, which then released a string of highly celebrated albums that merge jangly alt-country with dusky indie-pop.
Aug. 6, 1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson presents one of the pens used to sign the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to James Farmer, Director of the Congress of Racial Equality.
The Supreme Court has agreed to weigh the constitutionality of the decision by Congress in 2006 to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act, the landmark Civil Rights legislation enacted in 1965 that let millions of African-Americans cast ballots for the first time in states that had long blocked them from voting booths.
Mah Bow Tan, a member of Singapore's Parliament, inspects Chinese cabbage growing at the commercial vertical farm. Troughs of the veggies stack up to 30 feet in the greenhouse.
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Leafy Asian greens grow in Singapore's first commercial vertical garden.
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Troughs of bok choy stack up vertically at the 30-feet urban farm in Singapore. The veggies rotate along the A-frame to ensure they receive even lighting.
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An illustration of the 177-feet vertical farm by Plantagon currently in the works for Linkoping, Sweden.
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Senior Minister of State Lee Yi Shyan transplants some leafy green seedlings at the grand opening of Singapore's first commercial vertical farm.
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Troughs of bok choy stack up vertically at the 30-feet urban farm in Singapore. The veggies rotate along the A-frame to ensure they receive even light.
Singapore is taking local farming to the next level, literally, with the opening of its first commercial vertical farm.
Entrepreneur Jack Ng says he can produce five times as many vegetables as regular farming looking up instead of out. Half a ton of his Sky Greens bok choy and Chinese cabbages, grown inside 120 slender 30-foot towers, are already finding their way into Singapore's grocery stores.
The director of the Central Intelligence Agency David Petraeus submitted his resignation today, citing an extramarital affair.
"After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair," Petraeus, 60, said in a message sent to CIA staff. "Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours. This afternoon, the President graciously accepted my resignation."
Iranian women look at a jewelry shop display in Tehran, Iran, in 2010. Iran now appears to be stockpiling gold in an attempt to stabilize its economy, which has been hit hard by Western sanctions.
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Iranians make their way through Tehran's main bazaar. Iran's economy is under increasing strain, and its currency has fallen sharply.
Iran is stockpiling gold. That's the way David Cohen sees it. He's undersecretary of the Treasury, and the Treasury's point man for the banking sanctions the U.S. has imposed on Iran.
"Iran is attempting to hoard gold, both by acquiring it and by preventing the export of gold from Iran, in a somewhat desperate attempt to try and defend the value of its currency," Cohen says.
Originally published on Fri November 9, 2012 1:50 pm
Maybe it's just math, but it may also be a great political accomplishment.
President Obama has put together a coalition that's not only been a winner for him, but promises to pay dividends to his party for years to come.
A mix of minorities, young people and educated white professionals has now driven him to two majority-vote presidential victories — the first Democrat to pull that off since Franklin D. Roosevelt.
With most Americans fat or fatter, you'd think we'd be lightening up on the anti-fat attitudes.
Alas, no. Even doctors often think their overweight patients are weak-willed.
But changing negative attitudes about body size might be as simple as changing what you see. When women in England were shown photos of plus-sized women in neutral gray leotards, they became more tolerant.
